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MidnightLetter Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:00 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:48 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:12 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:40 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:16 pm
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Necessity would probably depend on what sort of tradition you're following, eh?
In general, though, it's my intuitive feeling that if your practice is all just about sabbats and/or esbats, you're not living the Path. You're being the equivalent of the Sunday Christian whose expression of religiosity is nothing more than going to church for one hour once a week. When they're not in church, they freely ignore the teachings of their denomination, which to my mind, spoils the point of following a religious path. In a sense this might be what the author is attempting to get at with the statement about expectation versus wanting, but I'm not sure it's even boiled down to that.
There is something to be said for doing something because it is part of your tradition or because it is an expectation. There are many good things to be said about discipline and tradition, be it regularly following esbats, a daily meditation practice, daily alter prayers/devotional, or what have you. Sometimes we become things by doing them. We learn things by doing too.
I think one of the best things I did early on was forcing myself to honor esbats regularly. It isn't something I was really excited about, but was something I felt I should start doing. So I did, and I worked to make it interesting. Now, it's something I simply always do and it's become something beautiful and wonderful. It is indeed worth it to do something at times even if you don't particularly want to.
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:54 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:56 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:45 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:21 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:51 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:35 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:44 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:18 pm
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Morgandria TheBelikov The moon dictates my emotions and how I deal with things. Without giving thanks and worshiping the Goddess I just don't feel healthy in all aspects. But I guess it depends on you and your Tradition. I think more perhaps on the individual, and not so much the tradition...although I can't speak for all traditions of Witchcraft. In British Traditional Wicca, though, the Esbats are to honour the Lady; it really has nothing to do with how an individual person feels or deals with things. (And if you want to get really picky, Water rules emotion - not the Moon.) Obviously if you're performing ritual alone, it is sort of immaterial, as Wicca isn't possible to practice solo.
I was just giving why I perform a ritual during the full moon. Perhaps I should've added "and" between the first two sentences, eh? During my full moon rituals I'm both "honoring" the Goddess and making myself feel better. ( To me the Goddess is the moon btw. ) Alone meaning what exactly?
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:00 pm
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TheBelikov I was just giving why I perform a ritual during the full moon. Perhaps I should've added "and" between the first two sentences, eh? During my full moon rituals I'm both "honoring" the Goddess and making myself feel better. ( To me the Goddess is the moon btw. ) Alone meaning what exactly?
No worries. Which Goddess in particular are you speaking of?
And alone - as in, singular. One individual. Wicca is a coven-based practice. Even a properly initiated member of a Wiccan coven can't practice Wicca alone - they need to be with the group to properly practice the rites.
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